Self-promo but it's a zine

Sharing my work offline

The snow is falling and I’m thinking about summer: sunshine, warm air, green grass.

I’m also thinking about self-promotion.

I do freelance design here and there to keep the lights on and to pay a guy to fix our heater when it stops working on Christmas morning.

I’m hoping to take on more projects this summer. However, self-promotion makes my skin crawl. But this is me promoting my work. I can do it on my terms.

So I turned my portfolio into a zine and I’m mailing it to a bunch of agencies and creative studios.

Do you know anyone I should send it to?

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Here are some things that are helping me think about alternative self-promotion:

• 100 ways to share your work + life that aren’t social media by Amelia Hruby

• A creative person’s guide to thoughtful promotion by Kathryn Jaller with illustrations by Molly Fairhurst (via The Creative Independent)

• Social Media Escape Club with Seth Werkheiser

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The techno-medieval font is a vertically stretched version of Electric Sheep.

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ALSO

• Is social media doing you dirty? Apply the CUE Test.

• “What we urgently need in all ranks of leadership, both in corporate and government, is the ability to imagine futures that see the messiness of being human not as an inefficiency to be optimized away but as an essential friction that weaves the fabric of genuine human experience.” via Dense Discovery

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Tiny Desk Concert

• “Artists, writers, painters, photographers, animators, designers, actors, cartoonists, comedians, and so on and so forth. They make the films, they write the books, they design the logos for your football team, they make our culture by hand, they bring us above beige reality and offer a polychromatic phantasy worth working for. And they have done this for thousands of years. All of humanity is in some way founded on the work of artists.” Alexander Naughton on the worth of an artist.

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“I can’t hear. Can you get off the highway?”

👋 M, C, K & O

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